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Worldbuilding Activity: What Would a Movie Trailer Promoting Your World Look Like?

By imworlds ⋅ April 3, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment del.icio.us StumbleUpon

I recently saw Children of Men and will be commenting more about the film in Episode 12, but I wanted to post the trailer for that film here. I think it does an excellent job of encapsulating, in a mere 2 minutes or so, every aspect of its world: the thematic subjects, the tone, characters needs and crises, economy of the world, and the premise. And it does it well (even if the film is incredibly dark).

If you’ve already seen the film, go ahead and watch the next clip. If you haven’t, don’t spoil it for yourself. I wanted to post this shot from the film because it was so well done, and really put the audience inside the bleak and hopeless world of the characters. Warning: violence, language and adult content in this one…